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First published in 1925 in the supplement to Issue VI of the newspapers Vperyod and Proletary, published by the History of the Party Institute of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks).
Published according to the manuscript.
Source:Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1972,
Moscow,
Volume 9,
page 435.
Translated: The Late Abraham Fineberg and Julius Katzer
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Geneva, November 4 (October 22)

Nicholasthe Bloodstained’s “Constitutional” Manifesto has been
followed by countless new killings organised by Trepov and his thugs. The
ferocity of the Cossacks, the anti-Jewish pogroms, the shooting down in the
streets of freshly “amnestied” political offenders, the pillage
conduct ed by the Black Hundreds with the aid of the police— everything
has been brought into play so as to crush the revolutionary struggle.

Thetsar has given the revolutionaries excellent help by confirming their
appraisal of his false concession, their appraisal of the vile comedy of a
“liberal” manifesto. The tsar is out to provoke a new and determined
struggle. So much the better! All of Social-Democracy’s activities, the entire
energy of the proletariat will now be directed towards preparing for the next
onslaught and destroying the monster of tsarism, which, in its death throes, is
trying for the last time to arouse evil instincts in the ignorant mob. The
greater Trepov’s display of zeal, the more certain is the complete downfall of
the entire Trepov set-up and of all the Romanovs.